The premise of this article is that direct marketing requires theory to progress as a discipline and to advance its practice. Furthermore, the author suggests that constructive truths should be suggested by practitioners to the academic community, to be tested and verified as the basis of direct marketing theory. The theory-in-use methodology is suggested as a framework for blending practitioners’ experiences into a theoretical framework.
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